This paper examines whether a Canadian-listed firm seeking to cross-list in the U.S. needs to consider liquidity differences when making a choice among the main U.S. venues (AMEX, NYSE or NASDAQ). After controlling for firm characteristics, we find that trade costs for Canadian shares...

The accuracy of five algorithms for classifying trades as buyer- or seller-initiated is assessed for BIST-30 index constituents over a period including the Lehman collapse. The highest classification accuracy rate (over 95%) is for the one-second lagged Lee & Ready (LR) algorithm. The LR's...